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Gulf Coast Oil Spill

"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the decision to designate the slick a disaster of "national significance" would allow clean-up equipment and resources from across the United States to be used."

Why on EARTH did it take them a full 7 days to do this? Why could this not have been done day one? It has progressively gotten worse and they are unable to shut it off yet.

BP spake with forked tongue. The government was assured that what they were being told by BP was on the up and up (that this was no big deal and that they could take care of it, no problem). This is what I've been hearing, anyway.

By the time the feds found out the truth, the crap was essentially hitting the coast.

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"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the decision to designate the slick a disaster of "national significance" would allow clean-up equipment and resources from across the United States to be used."

Why on EARTH did it take them a full 7 days to do this? Why could this not have been done day one? It has progressively gotten worse and they are unable to shut it off yet.

WTH :steam:

Aren't you one of those anti-government right-wingers?

We don't need Big Government tellin us what to do with our oil spills, with our tax money!! Let the private sector work it out.

I actually resent the fact that my tax money is going to clean up BP's problem. They should pay every cent to fix their own accident.

I'll be upset if the government doesn't send BP a bill.

Last edited by Lateralus; 05-03-2010 at 09:46 AM.

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Good. I knew that companies and individuals are often charged when their crimes or negligence cause major economic issues for the government (like in California, if you are speeding and try to outrun the cops, they charge you for the cost of bringing out the police helicopter to chase you). However, there were things like Superfund and the like a few decades ago in which the government footed the bill for a lot of disaster cleanups. That is totally wrong. The government is not there to clean up private messes. They are only supposed to step in when it cannot be fixed in any other way, and they should fine/punish the companies that fucked up.